Bug#506008: [grub-invaders] Fails to boot

[Robert Millan]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 02:19:38PM +0100, Didier Raboud wrote:
> 
> Hi again, 
> 
> from reading the changelog.gz, I confirm that this should have made it to Lenny. 
> After purging and reinstalling grub-pc from Lenny, 10_linux is still producing 
> a similar entry as above.
> 
> The mentioned bug (number ?) is then still open. I fear to try the change 
> because if invaders fails, what tells me that my boot won't fail too ?

It doesn't matter.  It's a small bugfix, not worth backporting it.

> What I see here on my laptop is that with the prepare_grub_to_access_device() 
> outside of the entries, it works and with it being inside the entry 
> for "invaders", it fails.

Sounds like a GRUB bug to me.  What version of grub-pc are you using? (make
sure you have run grub-install on that version)

Also, check:  grep multiboot /boot/grub/command.lst

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